Atwood's 'Book of Lives' has to be the most spectacular, hilarious, and generous autobiography of the last quarter century — ...

Most employers have landed on a hybrid “sweet spot” that research suggests is good for workers and productivity, and helps ...

Sources as old as Pliny the Younger, the ancient Roman lawyer and writer, tell stories of houses that are haunted.

Cases of a Victorian superbug are rising across most of Merseyside as medics record record levels of a worrying ...

Scandalous Victorians: 11 shocking truths about the era that built modern life The Victorian era conjures images of buttoned-up propriety, strict moral codes, and a society ...

Writer Veronica Hinke runs through some of the most popular theories about Edgar Allan Poe’s mysterious death in Baltimore.

Seven cases of a Victorian superbug are diagnosed in Cornwall each year as medics warn of rising infection rates and record ...

It wouldn't be spooky season without ghosts. But they weren't always the evil spirits we see in books and movies today. For ...

Supermarket shelves are buckling under the weight of pumpkins. Witches’ hats, cat ears and devil horns have been fetched down ...

I see dead people: Shakespeare's scariest The English department is full of classes that dive into the spooky and mysterious.

In my <a href=" target="_blank">last column, I discussed the evolution of the cinematic vampire, from silent films like “Nosferatu” to its latest incarnation in the musical horror film “Sinners.” ...

The novel’s influence on 20th-century literature cannot be overstated ... could be spiritual and life-affirming rather than shameful, directly challenging Victorian morality that persisted into the ...